Graham Sutherland’s early investigations in painting began in his mid-thirties, primarily painting unusual and romantic abstract landscapes, portraits, and still- lifes. The artist found artistic stimulation in contemporary movements such as Surrealism, yet in his later work, of which the present lot is prime example, the inspiration of the Southern French landscape as well as the influence of Francis Bacon, whom he befriended in the late 1940s, is without doubt portrayed. The quirky organic forms in Two Forms in Terraced Landscape reveal Sutherland’s inspirations and influences.